Island Enclaves

Author : Godfrey Baldacchino
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773586581

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Island Enclaves by Godfrey Baldacchino Pdf

Examining subnational island jurisdictions such as Guantánamo Bay, Macau, Aruba, the Isle of Man, and Prince Edward Island, Godfrey Baldacchino shows how these distinct locales arrange special relationships with larger metropolitan powers. He also deals with the politics, economics, and diplomacy of islands that have been engineered as detention camps, offshore finance centres, military bases, heritage parks, or otherwise autonomous regions. More than a study of how detached regions are governed, Island Enclaves displays the ways in which these jurisdictions are pioneering some of the modern world's most creative - and shadowy - forms of sovereignty and government.

Author : Jarkko Saarinen,Sandra Wall-Reinius
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000374926

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Tourism Enclaves by Jarkko Saarinen,Sandra Wall-Reinius Pdf

Exclusively planned tourism destinations have increased substantially over the last decades. As a result, gated leisure communities, all-inclusive resorts, private cruise liner-owned island and other tourism enclaves are rather common features in tourism, especially in the peripheries and low- and middle-income countries. Tourism enclaves can have varied characteristics and scales of operations but typically they involve standardized ‘non-local’ themes or appeal in their design, activities and economies. Typically, such tourism spaces contain all or a vast majority of facilities and services needed for tourists who have limited possibilities or desires to leave the enclave. At the same time, the locals’ access to these spaces is often limited or otherwise regulated. Thus, enclave tourism spaces are controlled and separated from surrounding communities. Tourism Enclaves: Geographies of Exclusive Spaces in Tourism focuses on tourism enclaves in different theoretical and geographical contexts. The chapters of the book aim to contribute to our understanding of how these exclusive spaces are created and transformed and how they shape places and place identities. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Tourism Geographies.

Author : Jarkko Saarinen,Sandra Wall-Reinius
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000374896

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Tourism Enclaves by Jarkko Saarinen,Sandra Wall-Reinius Pdf

Exclusively planned tourism destinations have increased substantially over the last decades. As a result, gated leisure communities, all-inclusive resorts, private cruise liner-owned island and other tourism enclaves are rather common features in tourism, especially in the peripheries and low- and middle-income countries. Tourism enclaves can have varied characteristics and scales of operations but typically they involve standardized ‘non-local’ themes or appeal in their design, activities and economies. Typically, such tourism spaces contain all or a vast majority of facilities and services needed for tourists who have limited possibilities or desires to leave the enclave. At the same time, the locals’ access to these spaces is often limited or otherwise regulated. Thus, enclave tourism spaces are controlled and separated from surrounding communities. Tourism Enclaves: Geographies of Exclusive Spaces in Tourism focuses on tourism enclaves in different theoretical and geographical contexts. The chapters of the book aim to contribute to our understanding of how these exclusive spaces are created and transformed and how they shape places and place identities. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Tourism Geographies.

Author : Godfrey Baldacchino
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317158233

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Solution Protocols to Festering Island Disputes by Godfrey Baldacchino Pdf

Since the coming into force of the United Nations Law of the Sea, states have been targeting outlying islands to expand their exclusive economic zones, simultaneously stirring up strident nationalism when such plans clash with those of neighbouring states. No such actions have brought the world closer to the brink of war than the ongoing face-off between China and Japan over the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands, an uninhabited archipelago in the East China Sea. In this timely and original book, Godfrey Baldacchino provides a detailed exploration of seven tried and tested solution protocols that have led to innovative 'win-win' solutions to island disputes over the last four centuries. A closer look at the circumstances and processes that brought contending regional powers to an honourable, even mutually advantageous, settlement over islands provides a convincing and original argument as to why the conflict over the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands need not conclude in a ‘zero-sum’ or 'winner takes all' solution, as is the likely outcome of both open conflict and international arbitration. The book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners concerned with the festering Diaoyu/Senkaku dispute, as well as students, scholars and policy specialists in geography, geopolitics, international relations, conflict studies, island studies, Asian studies and history.

Author : Robin Cohen
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1983-05
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015010451477

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African Islands and Enclaves by Robin Cohen Pdf

As history has shown, remote islands or small states can be flashpoints for international crises. This collection of commissioned essays examines African countries that, because of their seeming insignificance, have been passed over in recent scholarship. The essays focus on current political and economic issues. Why do such states find it difficult to sustain stable economic and political orders? The role of such countries in international trade; the effects of their small size, remoteness, or paucity of resources; and their use as military bases for other powers are among the subjects discussed.

Author : Mark J. Valencia
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004482135

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Pacific Ocean Boundary Problems by Mark J. Valencia Pdf

Author : Elaine Stratford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317414445

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Island Geographies by Elaine Stratford Pdf

Islands and their environs – aerial, terrestrial, aquatic – may be understood as intensifiers, their particular and distinctive geographies enabling concentrated study of many kinds of challenges and opportunities. This edited collection brings together several emerging and established academics with expertise in island studies, as well as interest in geopolitics, governance, adaptive capacity, justice, equity, self-determination, environmental care and protection, and land management. Individually and together, their perspectives provide theoretically useful, empirically grounded evidence of the contributions human geographers can make to knowledge and understanding of island places and the place of islands. Nine chapters engage with the themes, issues, and ideas that characterise the borderlands between island studies and human geography and allied fields, and are contributed by authors for whom matters of place, space, environment, and scale are key, and for whom islands hold an abiding fascination. The penultimate chapter is rather more experimental – a conversation among these authors and the editor – while the last chapter offers timely reflections upon island geographies’ past and future, penned by the first named professor of island geography, Stephen Royle.

Author : Brian McHale
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780415060134

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Constructing Postmodernism by Brian McHale Pdf

"Postmodernism is not a found object, but a manufactured artifact." Beginning from this constructivist premise, Brian McHale develops a series of readings of problematically postmodernist novelsJoyce's Ulysses; Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and Vineland; Eco's The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum; the novels of James McElroy and Christine Brooke-Rose, avant-garde works such as Kathy Aker's Empire of the Senseless, and works of cyberpunk science-fiction by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Lewis Shiner, Rudy Rucker, and others. Although mainly focused on "high" or "elite" cultural products, Constructing Postmodernism relates these products to such phenomena of postmodern popular culture as television and the cinema, paranoia and nuclear apocalypse, angelology and the cybernetic interface, and death, now as always, the true Final Frontier. McHale's previous book, Postmodernist Fiction (Routledge, 1987) seemed to propose a single, all-inclusive inventory of postmodernist poetics. This book, by contrast, proposes multiple, overlapping and intersecting inventoriesnot a construction of postmodernism, but a plurality of constructions. - Publisher description.

Author : Eve Hepburn,Godfrey Baldacchino
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134904143

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Independence Movements in Subnational Island Jurisdictions by Eve Hepburn,Godfrey Baldacchino Pdf

The dynamics for any moves for political independence in the 21st century are very different from those of the 20th. The aspirations of former colonies to independence are grinding to a halt; the rationale for selfdetermination is increasingly driven by strategic and pragmatic economic arguments, and not so much by nationalist appeals. Meanwhile, creative governance, fiscal vicissitudes and membership of supra-national bodies have ushered in examples of ‘sovereign states’ that approximate suzerain entities. Are independence movements active today aspiring to a different kind of sovereignty from their 20th century predecessors, one that secures autonomy at home, but which maintains a special relationship with a larger, richer, country? This collection critically reviews the origins, policies and aspirations of independence movements from the world’s subnational island jurisdictions, where a distinct and separate geography tends to facilitate the emergence of an equally distinct political and cultural identity. These island territories are the world’s top candidates for achieving sovereign status. And yet various factors are preventing them from making the final push towards independence. This book was originally published as a special issue of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics

Author : G. Baldacchino
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137023131

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The Political Economy of Divided Islands by G. Baldacchino Pdf

The authors investigate the exceptional political economy of the ten inhabited islands whose territory is divided amongst two or more countries: that are unitary geographical spaces but fragmented polities.

Author : Graham J. Murphy,Sherryl Vint
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136973178

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Beyond Cyberpunk by Graham J. Murphy,Sherryl Vint Pdf

This book is a collection of essays that considers the continuing cultural relevance of the cyberpunk genre into the new millennium. Cyberpunk is no longer an emergent phenomenon, but in our digital age of CGI-driven entertainment, the information economy, and globalized capital, we have never more been in need of a fiction capable of engaging with a world shaped by information technology. The essays in explore our cyberpunk realities to soberly reconsider Eighties-era cyberpunk while also mapping contemporary cyberpunk. The contributors seek to move beyond the narrow strictures of cyberpunk as defined in the Eighties and contribute to an ongoing discussion of how to negotiate exchanges among information technologies, global capitalism, and human social existence. The essays offer a variety of perspectives on cyberpunk’s diversity and how this sub-genre remains relevant amidst its transformation from a print fiction genre into a more generalized set of cultural practices, tackling the question of what it is that cyberpunk narratives continue to offer us in those intersections of literary, cultural, theoretical, academic, and technocultural environments.

Author : Stephen A. Royle
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781780234014

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Islands by Stephen A. Royle Pdf

From Charles Darwin’s enlightening voyage to the Galapagos Islands to moat-encased prisons incarcerating the world’s deadliest prisoners, islands have been sites of immense scientific, political, and creative importance. An inspiration for artists and writers, they can be lively centers of holiday revelry or remote, mysterious spots; places of escape or of exile and imprisonment. In this cultural and scientific history of these alluring, isolated territories, Stephen A. Royle describes the great variety of islands, their economies, and the animals, plants, and people who thrive on them. Royle shows that despite the view of some islands as earthly paradises, they are often beset by severe limitations in both resources and opportunities. Detailing the population loss many islands have faced in recent years, he considers how islanders have developed their homes into tourist destinations in order to combat economic instability. He also explores their exotic, otherworldly beauty and the ways they have provided both refuge and inspiration for artists, such as Paul Gauguin in Tahiti and George Orwell on the Scottish island of Jura. Filled with illustrations, Islands is a compelling and comprehensive survey of the geographical and cultural aspects of island life.

Author : Caroline Horton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474245517

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Islands by Caroline Horton Pdf

This is my world, I am the king, I make the rules and everyone else can go to hell. This is off-shore. Oxfam estimate that there is $18.5 trillion siphoned out of the world economy into tax havens by wealthy individuals alone. Christian Aid has calculated that 1,000 children die every day as a result of tax evasion. This is not just a political or social challenge: this is a matter of human rights. Islands is an illuminating, absurd and powerful new show about tax havens, little empires, enormous greed, and the few who have it all. Hilarious and unnerving, this ink-black comedy with music plunges you into a monstrous, secretive world where it really seems that no-one has to pay.... for anything. Head off-shore and frolic with those who have it all worked out as they feed their addiction to wealth, power and material stuff. The play received its world premiere at the Bush Theatre, London, on 15 January 2015.

Author : Rod Edmond,Vanessa Smith
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0415286662

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Islands in History and Representation by Rod Edmond,Vanessa Smith Pdf

With contributions from an international range of leading authorities on literature, history, art and geography, this book discusses the cultural significance of islands.

Author : Martin J. Murray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107169241

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The Urbanism of Exception by Martin J. Murray Pdf

This book argues that understanding global urbanism in the twenty-first century requires us to cast our gaze upon vast city-regions without an urban core.